a lot of time of course is. the 77 percent. from. 2 flashes from housing boom boom time this is where. the 77 percent. this weekend g.w. . this is the. coming up and. shaped. headed to the polls on saturday but ahead of the elections they are facing. a lot of truth waiting for number where we are. in the windows plus. in hong kong. mainland chinese who've joined the protest friends and others who say

the city has nothing to fear from beijing. it's good to have you with us wonderful now the polls to elect their 7th president and they have a choice of 35 candidates this time around a record for the island nation of around 22000000 people it's an election that comes months after more than $200.00 people were killed in bombings on easter sunday the campaigning has been vigorous but its tone has oftentimes been decided by varied media platforms. the presidential election is here and part of our social media timeline is flooded with political content most of which she says is negative nor online campaigning is permitted in the period before

the vote and election day but proxy just about part of customs does not ping the government should monitor let alone shut down foolishly media. that will flush when the websites are restored after a shutdown all the content and accounts are available again not everything can be reported or taken down so what's the point people need to be discerning enough on their own but to be safe she has already downloaded an app that to let her access the websites even if they're blocked. she non-fossil action the mission is aware of the challenges. the votes come in the shadow of this year's deadly easter sunday blast but it isn't just focusing on the physical security or border the commission is also keeping a close eye on provocative social media content. what we find and complain about hateful or fake content to facebook and google we've told them to immediately take it down. but it's regions are the limits of. social media is

far from the only source of mis information here prominent newspapers and channels in sri lanka have picked sides and are willing to go to shocking lengths to back their candidates this is a media analyst not long for going about than a house plenty of dangerous examples. this people declared that a prominent almost politician was asking the ethnic minority to back sodje premadasa one of the frontrunners major t.v. john has picked this up but the politician never said that in another incident a major to reach on the shore the muslim politician saying that. the other top candidate should be killed he said his soundbite had been doctored the politician had said rajapaksa should be defeated both politicians filed defamation cases but neither news outlet apologized the government's hands were tied since that contract

elite private media if something goes out on television and radio then it covers practically the entire population broadcasts never actually respects the right of reply deniers are very often completely ignored or the nyos are carried with strong rebuttal from the station which makes it worse. she lankans face a sea of propaganda and false reports navigating their way to the polls with the correct information certainly won't be easy. so i'm going to have to tell lies from the center for policy alternatives in colombo and i've been looking at the media coverage around the election so i don't know welcome now we talk a lot of about 16000000 people who are eligible to vote but they are feast with a tsunami of misinformation on their. well they're faced with a tsunami of information and content lot of it actually is misinformation but not

all of it in the elections that we have seen in the past and the rural and regional relevance of social media this election heading into the election day on the 16th of november is capped arise by many things but one of the ways in which it is characterized is the you know what you need impact and influence of social media on public perceptions all the candidates. in this election you don't want the public perception based on what is there on the source from the media has there been any attempt by authorities maybe the election commission to try and step in and try and ensure that correct information is disseminated. lections commission is the mind of bishop korea has repeatedly warned social media users and facebook page administrators and all those on social media to be very

mindful of the guidelines that have been put out by the elections commission and elections department which explicitly state that social media should not play a role in disseminating or producing misinformation the issue is that social media reflects in large part the content that is broadcast on television in the country so rotten cost on then. brant and i are engaged in due to the do not millions of times and millions of years of use accumulated over a period of time but it's content which you know in previous years would have only been seen at the time of the broadcast and then subsequently maybe even forgotten but right now they have an added life in a sense a longer shelf life on social media and that is very problematic because the chief . one of the problems for decades in this country is not facebook is not social

media but the deep the partisan bias nature of traditional media and that traditional media content print and broadcast now on the likes of platforms like facebook is creating an even bigger headache for board elections commission and for civil society and for those of us concerned with electoral integrity right now that all of these elections come in the shadow of the easter sunday attacks in this how crucial for the role of media being in determining the window extremely crucial of course in any election the media is crucial so this is this election is no exception to it. whether or not they sit on the terrace of the 3rd. media in this country have any and every single election that had last couple of years and now we have had throughout history a drive. a fundamentally important role in determining who will be never be and it

is also long before when i keep saying it's done before the advent of the introduction of social media the point about social issues that are millions in gauging investment are very different to the kind of models and the kinds of engagement that we saw with just green screens or television has broadcast and that's that's an added complexity that's been challenge we have to leave it there for the timing but thank you so much for joining us on the know how to talk. it's been more than 5 months since hong kong became unrecognizable for the cultural melting pot it actually is it's changed so much that if you are from mainland china or overtly appear connected to it you fear for your safety chinese banks and businesses tied to the mainland have been vandalized and some people have even been abused for speaking mandarin on the streets this in a city that is officially a part of china and where around 1500000 mainland chinese have moved since 1970

and since the violence began mainlanders living in hong kong suddenly find themselves on opposing sides of the debate the neighborhood forum on homes political crisis one of many to achieve in that one comes vibrant civil society has organized so she already lecture a mini lee is happy to speak out publicly something she would have never considered 11 years ago when she 1st moved to hong kong from the chinese mainland. 2 runs into a 100 would hope i suddenly heard so many different opinions when i arrived yes and some of them felt completely unacceptable even just talking about on this team much i had a feeling of danger which i felt they were foreign forces trying to change me or even brainwash me. but then i became curious even the edge of the house today minutely ardently supports free speech when the pro-democracy movement took

to the streets in june she joined them and when the government ignored their demands she even went on a hunger strike. since then the protests have escalated massively with police using tear gas and rubber bullets and protesters hurling petrol bombs and wreaks almost daily and things just keep getting worse many people in hong kong are shocked by the violence. victim is one of them he also arrived in hong kong more than a decade ago he works in the financial sector and proudly identifies as a hong kong. boley all hong kong people must condemn the violence and the illegal acts no matter where we are from including our friends from germany the u.s. japan. we only to stand up and say no to this so this must stop

borders for sure. but he's not concerned about the city's freedoms to those who say they fear that hong kong might become more and more like the mainland he responds so what question i'm saying that your source so i'm from lunging but i know very well. i often go to shanghai and to beijing and. i don't know hong kong very well so much a joke i think there's nothing to fear. i think the source of this fear is that people don't understand the mainland. we nearly however is afraid over the losing her freedom has videos she publicly defends the democracy movement are circulating online when her father recently texted her from the mainland warning that what she said was inappropriate she knew who was behind it or biological foot by my car doesn't know how to bypass the great firewall there's no

way he came across my speeches on the sense of chinese internet i didn't tell him. so the only way he could have known is that state security told him so i asked him whether agents had visited him he didn't reply to any of. mealy hasn't been intimidated by the threats so far she is still speaking out hoping to preserve her hard won freedoms. and you can of course follow more of our correspondence coverage of the hong kong protests on our website dot com. and that is also where you can get this show on demand and of course check us out of facebook and twitter as well. that's our show for today we leave you now with pictures from the lead up for the should on can presidential election set for this saturday and don't forget if you're going. to the minute

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a double sunrise test flight from london to sydney. jones and this is the business asia well it is official of now hong kong has entered its 1st recession in a decade the economy shrank 3.2 percent in the 3rd quarter of violent clashes between pro-democracy protesters and police are taking their toll on the financial and trading hub tourists are canceling bookings retailers are reeling from a shop a drop in sales on the stock market just faltering it's hong kong's worst crisis since it reverted from british to chinese rule in 1997 here's what hong kong government economist said at a press conference today. as if in terms of foreign violence in the past few months have. taken

a heavy toll on consumption. as. investment so too much. the latest surveys also sent.